Oederlin
| Oederlin AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1858 |
| Seat |
Baden , Switzerland
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| Branch | Real estate industry |
| Website | www.oederlin.ch |
| Oederlin Giesserei AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1985 |
| Seat |
Obersiggenthal , Switzerland
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| Branch | Foundry |
| Website | www.oederlin-giesserei.ch |
Oederlin is the name of two Swiss companies that emerged from what was once a major valve manufacturer . At the peak of its development, it had almost 1,000 employees and was one of the most important in this branch in Switzerland.
The former parent company Oederlin AG , based in Baden (founded in 1858), is now a pure real estate company that maintains and rents out the extensive factory area in neighboring Obersiggenthal -Rieden. The premises are used by several businesses. This also includes Oederlin Giesserei AG , which was outsourced from the group in 1985 as the last remaining production branch and is now a medium-sized company.
history
Franz Joseph Oederlin (1792–1856) worked as a cloth merchant and iron dealer. His sons Karl Joseph (1825–1902) and Friedrich Traugott took over the business and concentrated on the hardware trade . They decided to manufacture the goods themselves and opened a foundry in 1858 , which expanded rapidly. The company's headquarters were in Baden, the production facilities were built in Obersiggenthal-Rieden on the municipal border with Ennetbaden and used the hydropower of the Limmat . The Oederlins manufactured sheet metal and brass goods; in the 1860s they already employed 130 workers.
A niche market, the company was in the production of faucets and valves , plus it produced car sets and pipes. A pioneering achievement that was recognized worldwide was the patenting of water taps with rubber seals and exchangeable valve seats in 1886. In 1890 the previous general partnership became the limited partnership Edmund Oederlin & Cie. transformed. With the construction of the company's own power plant in Oederlin , production increased significantly from 1896 onwards. Shortly before the First World War , the company had more than 400 workers, and in 1918 it was converted into a stock corporation . Further expansion steps were the electric casting (1921), the aluminum casting (1933), the casting of chrome-nickel steel (1934), the centrifugal casting (1954) and the plastics processing (1955).
In 1958, the anniversary year, Oederlin AG reached its peak with a workforce of almost 1,000. In addition to fittings, the product range also included components for aviation, railways, power generation, heating and sanitary facilities. In 1970 the fittings industry got into a serious crisis and a long process of consolidation and contraction followed. The individual group companies were gradually sold until finally only the original foundry remained as a production facility. The Oederlin AG foundry stopped production at the end of 2015.
literature
- Otto Mittler : History of the City of Baden . tape 2 - From 1650 to the present. Verlag Sauerländer , Aarau 1965, p. 259-262 .
- Thomas Pfau: E. Oederlin & Co. Armaturen- und Metallwarenfabrik Baden . The company's history in short.
- Adolf Rey: The development of industry in the canton of Aargau . Aarau 1937.
- Biographical Lexicon of the Canton of Aargau 1803-1957 . Aarau 1958.
Web links
Inventory: Oederlin. City Archives Baden AG . 1829-2012. Signature: U.01. link
- Patrick Zehnder: Oederlin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Oederlin AG (real estate) (with history of the entire company)
- Oederlin Giesserei AG
- Entry in the commercial register of Oederlin AG
- Entry in the commercial register of Oederlin Giesserei AG